Friday, August 15, 2008

McKinney will speak at Recreate-68 rally; Colorado Greens might remove her from ballot

I know, who the hell cares about yet another split among chronic marxist splitters, but Green Party prez candidate Cynthia McKinney says that, contrary to what the Colorado Greens had claimed in a press release, and despite begging and threats from same, she'll be speaking at the R-68 Stop the War rally and march on Aug. 24:

As the United States activated Navy ships and the Air Force to begin an airlift of non-specified goods into the former Soviet state of Georgia, and military exercises began in the Persian Gulf near Iran, I received communications from certain individuals among the Colorado Greens who were organizing campaign support events there, suggesting that I not participate in an anti-war program being organized by other individuals inColorado. . . .

In the face of 24/7 warmongering by Emperor Chimpler II, how can the C. Greens be so petty?

Within a few hours, I was reading messages stating that the Green Party of Colorado would be ruined if I participated in the End the Occupations/End the War march and rally slated to take place on the morning of August 24th on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol, or if Rosa participated in a Freedom March and Rally for Human Rights and Political Prisoners at Civic Center Park the following day. . . .

In addition, we were told that at least one resignation and sustaining membership would be tendered to the Party, and that Rosa and I could expect no support on the ground in Denver from the Green Party of Colorado, including a planned fundraiser and a place to stay.

Dang. When marxists split, they split all the way down.

Without receiving any additional response or information from either Rosa or I, the correspondent sent a message informing us that all Green Party of Colorado events previously scheduled for us had been canceled. Further, the message stated that ballot access petitioning by Green Party of Colorado would cease in neighboring Wyoming and that all efforts would be made to remove Rosa’s and my names from the ballot in Colorado. The message also noted that the Colorado delegation overwhelmingly supported Elaine Brown at the Green Party Convention.

Like, we really always thought you were a bitch. Bitch.

With the e-mail messages flying “fast and furious,” [nice quotage] I hope I have mentioned the highlights of this episode in somewhat chronological order. What Rosa and I would like to address now, is the ideological and rational order that produced this outcome.

Basically it's because of all the wonderful people who've supported her or whom she's supported in the past:

Rosa and I are pleased to have received the endorsement of M-1 of Dead Prez, who put out a video of endorsement and is rallying other conscious Hip Hop, Generation X voters to the Green Party with Rosa and I as its nominees. Rebel Diaz was on the stage with Rosa as she accepted her Green Party nomination for Vice President. Both Dead Prez and Rebel Diaz are participating in the events in question, according to the organizers.

Fred Hampton, Jr.’s mother, a victim of COINTELPRO, came to Georgia in the mid-1990s to help me gain reelection after a malicious redistricting case that went all the way up to the Supreme Court. Ward Churchill has traveled to my Congressional district to educate my former constituents on the COINTELPRO of yesterday and the COINTELPRO of today. Natsu Saito introduced me to other victims of COINTELPRO. I asked Kathleen Cleaver to co-author a report that was submitted to Mary Robinson, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at the time of the World Conference Against Racism, on the unsolved murders of Black Panther Party members who were victims of COINTELPRO. Fred Hampton, Jr., Ward Churchill, Natsu Saito, and Kathleen Cleaver are all participating in the events in question, according to the organizers.

Add Mumia and Palestinians and MOVE and the like, and she just has to be there:

Rosa and I have not been given any rational, ideological, or strategically-acceptable reason by the Green Party of Colorado to dissociate ourselves from the movement that this country so desperately needs and that these individuals and organizations participating represent, as we all attempt to hold the Democratic Party accountable for its complicity in all of the crimes of the Bush Administration.

Of course, McKinney doesn't even mention the actual reason the Greens split from R68: their potential for violence. Guess that doesn't qualify as "'rational, ideological, or strategically-acceptable."

Rosa and I will keep our appointments in Denver and we hope that the members of the Green Party of Colorado will attend our sessions and listen to what we have to say. I have faith that by taking principled stands against war and occupation, human rights abuse, the prison-industrial complex, and in support of freedom for political prisoners, the Green party will emerge stronger.

Uh. Huh. Well, this "I'm ideologically purer than thou" stuff is always fun, but we all know how these little spats tend to turn murderous once McKinney's sort gains power. Show trials. Mass executions. All that junk.

Update: Got this in a google alert with a linkie to R6!8, but Glenn Spagnuolo had already set me straight in comments ("Wrong again, John") with quotes from the McKinney/Clemente release. Didn't see it till now. Haloscan is still being weird.